Re: [Unity-design] ubuntu.com should inform better about 32bit vs 64bit

2012-04-26 Thread Benjamin Tegge
I'm just reading an article on heise.de about x32-ABI again, that's going to be merged into Linux 3.4. This might solve the issue for some applications in the near future (may be in a year). However, I think that should be discussed on another mailing list. Regards Benjamin -- Mailing list: https

Re: [Unity-design] ubuntu.com should inform better about 32bit vs 64bit

2012-04-23 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 23/04/2012 02:02, Andrea Corbellini wrote: > I've been using x86_64 on many PCs and virtual machines with less than > 1GB of memory. To be honest, most of these virtual machines were running > with 512MB or less. However I never faced a slow down: 1GB is more than > enough for whichever architec

Re: [Unity-design] ubuntu.com should inform better about 32bit vs 64bit

2012-04-23 Thread Benjamin Tegge
Hello Omar, hello Andrea, I made the experience by myself some years ago that 1GB of RAM is not enough and the situation gets worse when you use x86_64. Firefox may have improved it's RAM consumption, but 1GB is really not enough and will cause swapping when you use the system the usual way throug

Re: [Unity-design] ubuntu.com should inform better about 32bit vs 64bit

2012-04-22 Thread Andrea Corbellini
Hi Omar, On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 17:24 +, Omar B. wrote: >[...] > At first boot it seems snappier, but after like 20 minutes of use > (with just the browser or a few apps open), the computers slowed down > into a crawl... >[...] I've been using x86_64 on many PCs and virtual machines with less